Footsie floundered on Friday but still finished slightly up on the week.
The blue-chip index dipped mid-afternoon following discouraging consumer sentiment data from the US, but rallied to finish up six points on the week but down 40 points on the day at 6,490.
The biggest loser among Footsie constituents was fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management (LON:ADN), down 3.1% to 411.3p, closely followed by HSBC Holdings (LON:HSBA), down 2.7% to 720.1p.
Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSB) was down 1.2% to 2,240p, after being downgraded by heavyweight US broker JP Morgan (JPM), which sees earnings and cash flow coming under pressure.
JPM has lowered the share price target to £24 from £25, and the stance to ‘underweight’ from ‘neutral’.
Airline International Consolidated Airlines Group, better known as IAG (LON:IAG), was a high flyer after Morgan Stanley turned bullish on the stock, upgrading it to ‘overweight’.
ARM Holdings (LON:ARM) was another blue-chip enjoying broker support. Broker Jeffries lifted the rating on the chip designer to 'buy' from 'hold' and the target price to 1300p from 805p.
The junior benchmarks were doing better than their senior counterparts. The FTSE AIM All-share was up 2.34 to 747.51, while the FTSE Small Cap finished up 10 at 3,80.
Arian Silver (LON:AGQ) was a glittering feature among the small caps, up 15%, after it agreed terms to buy a processing plant for its San Jose mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, a move that that could treble its output.
The new plant, the El Bote Mill, is currently located close to Zacatecas City and has capacity to treat up to 1,500 tonnes per day of silver-lead-zinc ore.
Payments processing specialist Planet Payment (LON:PPT) was up ahead of results next week. The firm announced a strategic processing relationship with Visa, the credit card giant. The relationship will focus on developing markets.
Other big movers include Craven House Capital (LON:CRV), up more than 26% to 0.41p, Summit (LON:SUMM), up 16% to 5.25p, and Patagonia Gold (LON:PGD), up 15% to 17.5p.
Iron ore pellet producer Ferrexpo (LON:FXPO) shares were also on the rise, up 3.5%.
The firm declared yesterday a special dividend of 6.6c, equivalent to a 36% pay-out ratio and in line with many of the diversified miners.
Ferrexpo (LON:FXPO) reported underlying earnings (EBITDA) of US$402mln in 2012.
Oxus Gold (LON:OXS) dipped despite announcing it has settled a dispute relating to the two drill rigs in Romania owned by a subsidiary of the company. The company has been paid €228,000 of cash compensation in full and final settlement of its dispute.